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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warmingby Bjorn Lomborg
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered—the Kyoto Protocol, for example—have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little impact on the world's temperature. He suggests that rather than institutionalizing these programs to “cool” the earth's temperature 100 years from now, we should focus our resources on some of the world's most pressing immediate concerns, such as: fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS, and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply. And he considers why and how this debate has developed an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized. Review:“A reasoned addition to the debate about what to do about climate change. And it is sure to provoke just as much controversy as his last book.” —Esquire Review:“A reasoned addition to the debate about what to do about climate change. . . . Sure to provoke much controversy.” Esquire Review:“Lomborg affirms that the planet is warming, but questions why so much of the policy debate is framed around the idea of imminent catastrophe. This book dares to offer straightforward new thinking about how best to respond. Indispensable.” —Clive Crook, associate editor, Financial Times; senior editor, The Atlantic Monthly Review:“Brimming with useful facts and common sense. . . . [Lomborg's] analysis is smart and refreshing, and it may bridge at least one divide in our too divided culture.” The Wall Street Journal Review:“[A] calm, civil, even-handed analysis. [Cool It] is suffused with concern for socially beneficial priorities and for practical steps to do good. . . . It provides some badly needed balance.” Financial Times About the AuthorBjorn Lomborg was named one of the 100 world's most influential people by Time magazine in 2004. He is the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The Economist, among others. He is presently an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School and in 2004, he started the Copenhagen Consensus, a conference of top economists who come together to prioritize the best solutions for the world's greatest challenges. He lives in Copenhagen. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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